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enChina Could Deliver on Its Carbon Promise Earlier than Expectedhttp://www.technologyreview.com/news/532601/china-could-deliver-on-its-carbon-promise-earlier-than-expected/
<p>China may put a stop to growing carbon dioxide emissions earlier than expected, but how quickly they start coming down is also important.</p><p>In an agreement <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/11/fact-sheet-us-china-joint-announcement-climate-change-and-clean-energy-c" target="0">announced</a> last week, China and the United States, which together account for some 45 percent of the globe’s total carbon dioxide emissions, pledged to make significant efforts in the next 10 to 15 years to limit their CO2 emissions.</p>Tue, 18 Nov 2014 16:36:00 +0000Kyanna.Sutton532601 at http://www.technologyreview.comClimate Panel Issues Dire Report as Renewables Make Little Impacthttp://www.technologyreview.com/news/532251/climate-panel-issues-dire-report-as-renewables-make-little-impact/
<p>Latest synthesis report from U.N. panel says we’ve already emitted half the permissible greenhouse gases if we wish to avoid the worst.</p><p>The latest comprehensive global scientific assessment of climate change, released on Sunday, sounds the direst warning yet about the need to drastically reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. But despite years of such reports, fossil-fuel use and human-caused emissions continue to rise, and renewable energy technologies have so far failed to make a significant difference.</p>Mon, 03 Nov 2014 23:05:00 +0000juniper.friedman532251 at http://www.technologyreview.comSurging Carbon Dioxide Shows Clean Tech Failurehttp://www.technologyreview.com/news/530591/surging-carbon-dioxide-shows-clean-tech-failure/
<p>Record levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide reflect a healthier economy, cheap fossil fuels, and the absence of effective carbon-reducing policies.</p><p>Wind, solar, and other clean energy technologies have sprouted around the world in recent years, and deployment surged in 2013. Yet taken together, they still failed to prevent 2013 from notching the largest single-year growth in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations since the mid-1980s.</p>Thu, 11 Sep 2014 19:40:00 +0000juniper.friedman530591 at http://www.technologyreview.comA Drop in U.S. CO2 Emissionshttp://www.technologyreview.com/news/428947/a-drop-in-us-co2-emissions/
<p>New data show emissions from January to March were the lowest in two decades.</p><p>More electricity in the United States is being generated by natural-gas fired power plants, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=6990">and less from coal</a>. This shift, combined with unusually low heating demand last winter and reduced gasoline demand, meant the country emitted the smallest amount of energy-related carbon dioxide in a January-to-March stretch since 1992, according to <a target="_blank" href="http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=7350#tabs_co2emissions-1">a report out this month</a> from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. </p>Tue, 21 Aug 2012 04:00:00 +0000digitalservices428947 at http://www.technologyreview.com